Example sentences of "have [be] in a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we have seen , old St Paul 's had been in a very poor state of repair even before 1640 , and had suffered further damage as a result of the events of the 1640s before being fatally weakened by the Great Fire . |
| 2 | The Irish Lions selector , Ken Reid , who arrived yesterday in Edinburgh for a selectors meeting , must have been in a reasonably good frame of mind after Saturday 's contest . |
| 3 | And I must have been in a really funny mood , and I said yes we have it 's on the till and he went well I suggest you get them in the windows then ! |
| 4 | If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth . |
| 5 | Had they had a more sophisticated social and cultural theory , they would have been in a much better position to address themselves to this problem . |
| 6 | However , if that election had been fought under some system of proportional representation then the Conservatives would have had a majority over Labour but would have been in a very substantial overall minority since the Liberals and Social Democrats would have held 160 or so seats . |
| 7 | Ostensibly more compelling is the argument that if British manufacturing industry had matched insurance , banking , and allied financial services , in terms of international competitiveness , the economy would have been in a very healthy state indeed . |
| 8 | Until then , newspaper coverage of the Royal Family had been in a fairly lengthy decline . |
| 9 | Six years ago , Chambers had been in a very small way of trade , on the outer fringe of the dozens of banks that belonged to the London Clearing House . |
| 10 | Erm is one they 've been in a very similar position to in so much as competition 's forced them to cost down dramatically I mean |
| 11 | In Cuba , for example , ‘ figures of the Wars of Independence , like Marti and Maceo , or of the 1933 revolution [ against the dictator Machado ] … give the revolution legitimacy by linking it with the historic past and , at least in the case of the heroes of 1933 , they have been in a very real sense the inspiration of the present revolutionary leaders , to a far greater degree than Marx and Lenin' ( Lambert : 1977 , p. 237 ) . |
| 12 | There is a small , but increasing risk of HIV infection in heterosexuals unless they have been in a mutually monogamous relationship for a number of years . |